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Beneath the axis of the skeleton; subvertebral; hyposkeletal.

Below the vertebral column, subvertebral.

Between crura; -- applied especially to the interneural plates in the vertebral column of many cartilaginous fishes.

Between spines; esp., between the spinous processes of the vertebral column.

An interarticular synovial cartilage or membrane; esp., one of the intervertebral synovial disks in some parts of the vertebral column of birds. Converging meniscus, Diverging meniscus. See Lens.

us system of (an animal, as a frog), as by passing a stout wire or needle up and down the vertebral canal.

ebra, or the dorsal element in each half of a hemal arch, forming, or corresponding to, a vertebral rib. -- Pleu*rap`o*phys"i*al, a. Owen.

in front of the back; immediately in front, or on the ventral side the dorsal part of the vertebral column.

Prevertebral.

A vertebral rudiment in front of the atlas in some reptiles.

Having a caudal fin extending around the end of the vertebral column, like that which is first formed in the embryo of fishes; diphycercal.

yo breaks up on either side of the anterior part of the notochord; a mesoblastic, or protovertebral, somite. See Illust. of Ectoderm.

The plate of bone which forms the posterior end of the vertebral column in most birds; the plowshare bone; the vomer. It is formed by the union of a number of the last caudal vertebræ, and supports the uropigium.

Of or pertaining to the rachis; spinal; vertebral. Same as Rhachidian.

The spine; the vertebral column.

One of the curved bones attached to the vertebral column and supporting the lateral walls of the thorax.

That part of the vertebral column which is directly connected with, or forms a part of, the pelvis.

Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the backbone, or vertebral column; rachidian; vertebral.

Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the lumbar region of the vertebral column.

Situated above the vertebral column.